Word: reading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read the article with quite some surprise, not to mention disgust. The tone . . . was deplorable. In short, it sounded to me as though TIME might be harboring a little ill feeling toward Masonry...
...written another statement, he told Mrs. Roosevelt, and he would like her to read it before it was released. "In the midst of the great confusion and the many regrettable misunderstandings and misinterpretations," he wanted to make the Roman Catholic position clear. This time the sting and heat of his early manner was gone...
Before the Senate Banking and Currency committee last week, a trim, grey-haired woman slowly read this West Virginia coal miner's account of his fight with life...
...children of John W. Hopper, onetime mayor of Neptune City, N.J., "and their descendants down through the ages to come" received the following bequest last week when his will was read: ". . . the knowledge that I, their father and grandfather, had no share, not even once, in the installation or perpetuation of the Roosevelt (F.D.) dynasty . . ." Hopper's will added firmly: "With this knowledge they may always hold up their heads in pride...
...Though he can neither read nor write, 25-year-old Lewis West of Miami, a Negro, managed to get himself sentenced to 23 months in prison for forgery. His method: he simply stole Government checks from a mailbox, marked them with an X and got obliging neighborhood merchants to cash them...